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Norwegian politician
Knut Frydenlund
Frydenlund in 1981
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
9 May 1986 – 26 February 1987
Prime MinisterGro Harlem Brundtland
Preceded bySvenn Stray
Succeeded byThorvald Stoltenberg
In office
16 October 1973 – 14 October 1981
Prime MinisterTrygve Bratteli
Odvar Nordli
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Preceded byDagfinn Vårvik
Succeeded bySvenn Stray
Member of the Norwegian Parliament
In office
1 October 1969 – 26 February 1987
ConstituencyOslo
Personal details
Born(1927-03-31)31 March 1927
Drammen, Buskerud, Norway
Died26 February 1987(1987-02-26) (aged 59)
Oslo, Norway
Political partyLabour
SpouseGrethe Nilsen (1958–1987; his death)

Knut Frydenlund (31 March 1927 – 26 February 1987) was a Norwegian diplomat and politician for the Labour Party who served as foreign minister from 1973 to 1981 and again from 1986 to 1987.

Frydenlund was born in Drammen and began his diplomatic career in the 1950s, initially serving at the Norwegian embassy in Bonn, and served in various diplomatic positions during the 1950s and the 1960s. In 1969, he was elected to parliament as a member of the Norwegian Labour Party, and he became foreign minister in the Labour government in 1973. While Labour was out of power from 1981 to 1986, he was replaced as foreign minister by Svenn Thorkild Stray, but returned to the office in May 1986.

In February 1987, following his return from a Nordic Council meeting in Helsinki, Frydenlund collapsed at Oslo's Fornebu Airport due to a cerebral hemorrhage and died soon afterward at Ullevaal Hospital in Oslo.

References

  1. "Norway's Foreign Minister Dies". Los Angeles Times. 1987-02-26. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
Political offices
Preceded bySvenn Stray Minister of Foreign Affairs
1986–1987 		Succeeded byThorvald Stoltenberg
Preceded byDagfinn Vårvik Minister of Foreign Affairs
1973–1981 		Succeeded bySvenn Stray
Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Norway
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